Entry № 7525 · Ancient Egyptian origin

Nitocris Nitocris — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ny-TOH-kris /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ancient Egyptian
Meaning
"Old Kingdom Egyptian queen (possibly first female pharaoh)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Egyptian)

A name that means "old kingdom egyptian queen (possibly first female pharaoh)".

Nitocris (Greek Νίτωκρις, from Egyptian Neith-iqret, "Neith is excellent"). Modern scholarship debates whether she is historical or legendary; the Saite-era Nitocris I (c. 656-585 BCE) was a separate God's Wife of Amun.

Neith is excellent.

The name in its native script.

𓈒𓏏𓏪𓂋𓏏𓁗
Transliteration
Neith-iqret
Pronunciation
/ naɪˈtoʊ.krɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nitocris stands.

Nitocris does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nitocriss before her.

Real people
Nitocris
Possibly first female pharaoh.
c. 2184 BCE
In fiction
Nitocris
Herodotus's Histories.

Names connected to Nitocris.

The number behind Nitocris.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nitocris reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.